Coloring and Recoloring in Illustrator

Choosing the right colors for your project usually isn’t hard, but applying them properly to maximize efficiency and flexibility can be tricky! Even harder: hearing from your boss or client that the colors need to change.

In this great HOW-TO deep dive, you’ll learn the techniques of the Illustrator power users and never have to worry about color changes again.

Three Minutes Max: Photoshop

Everyone loves Photoshop tips — from amazing (but useful) special effects, to essential productivity enhancements, every trick helps! Join us as 8 Photoshop experts from around the world each share their best Photoshop tip or trick in under 3 minutes. Next: you get to vote for which one is best! This is traditionally one of the highlights of CreativePro Week, when attendees gasp with delight and astonishment.

Essential Tools and Services for Accessibility

Sure, you can do most of what you need in InDesign and Acrobat… but you can often do it easier or quicker with a third-party tool. Discover these expert’s favorite add-ons and services for stepping up your accessibility workflow, from good to great.

Building Great Templates with InDesign, Part 2

In Part 1 of this 3-part tutorial, we saw how to find, edit, and—most importantly—begin to customize InDesign templates to your own needs. Now, in Part 2, we’ll dive deeper, exploring:

  • How to set up margins so your text frames will move when margins are adjusted
  • Set up page size, column guides, color swatches and more
  • Add text and image placeholders, as well as reusable elements
  • Create smart paragraph, character, and object styles
  • Make a caption both under a photo and on top of a photo (with a fill transparency), and apply all settings with one click
  • Understand how based on paragraph styles can make a template incredibly flexible
  • Combine separate text frames into one (and why your heads/subheads shouldn’t be a separate text frame from the body, like you see in many templates)
  • How to create tints and gradient from a base color
  • Anchor a graphic into a paragraph

Learn about Part 3 here.

Working Happier Not Harder with Photoshop and Illustrator 2021

Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop are incredibly rich and deep apps, with a 25+ year history behind them. Many people still use them the way they were taught 10 or 20 years ago. Stop it! Get up to speed with the amazing new features that have appeared over the past few years, so that you can become more productive, more efficient, and more creative with this amazing tool.

Wow: Vector Projects

Join us for an educational and inspirational session, as we showcase some of the world’s most amazing vector illustrations. From infographics to diagrams, commercial art to crazy special effects, you’ll not only see the art, but how the art was made.

Wow: Photoshop Projects

You know what we’re talking about: Those images where you just stop, stare, and say: wow. Here’s a treat for every Photoshop user: an opportunity to go deeper and see how some of these “wow” images were created, constructed, shot, layered, and finished.

Acrobat PDF Accessibility

In Parts 1 and 2 of this multi-session tutorial, we explored how to set up Adobe InDesign to export accessible documents. But there’s only so much InDesign can do! In this session, let’s look at the proper next steps you need to take in Acrobat.

Building Great Templates with InDesign, Part 1

Creating a document in InDesign that can be used to build other documents, often by other people, requires an understanding of a wide range of InDesign features. In this three-part tutorial, we’ll explore the features you should know to set up a great template, how to set up files properly, and how to make use of templates you’ve acquired elsewhere.

Part 1: First, we’ll learn all about templates, what they are, how to create, customize and use. Then we’ll check out a few popular template resources to download for free, or purchase a pre-made template to customize for your own use. We’ll find out that these free or purchased templates may not suit your exact needs or be built with the correct tools. They are useless until you customize them for your own brand.

In this session, you’ll learn:

  • What is a template? What’s the difference between an InDesign document (.indd) and a InDesign template (.indt)
  • What InDesign elements should go into a template, and what should stay out?
  • How to build a document from the ground up that others can use
  • How to save an existing document as a template
  • Where to find quality templates
  • How to find and use free templates from Adobe Stock
  • Customize a template for your own brand

Learn about Part 2 here.

Designing for Social Media

It’s a fast-paced social media world we’re living in, and “good” is not good enough these days to catch people’s attention. In this fast-paced session, we’ll demonstrate some of our favorite techniques for making the good look great, whether you’re using desktop or mobile apps.